Anything Boys Can Do…(Not Exactly!)

You know what I love about Mother’s Day? I love that there’s a day of the year when we actually celebrate moms. We don’t differentiate between working moms, stay-at-home moms, between teen moms and single moms, between step-moms and moms-in-law. If you’re a mom, this day is for you.

On Mother’s Day we don’t have to talk about balancing work and family. No one argues about the virtues or shortcomings of attachment parenting or whether or how long is too long to breastfeed your babies. Instead, we all call our moms and those mother-figures in our lives who have shaped who we are and who sacrificed some of themselves and we just say, “Thank you. Thank you for being who you are. Thank you for being my mom.”

I wish every day was Mother’s Day.

I wish that people could spend less time arguing about equality and more time exercising their responsibility. I often wonder why women want to do “everything boys can do” when what we do is uniquely female. Why would I even want to be anything but what God uniquely created me to be?  I want to figure out how to be the best at that.

How can I model for my daughters what it looks like to be different yet equal? Every girl has the responsibility to live up to her inherent, God-given value. To be uniquely female just means that you get to be uniquely you. You get to experience empathy, intuition, and language in ways that are different from men. You get to show love and compassion in the way that only you know how to do.

Mother’s Day isn’t just about having kids. For all of you who either are a mom or have a mom, this day is for you.

Because you’re you.

You’ve been uniquely created by God for a purpose, and I promise it’s not so you can be like anybody else on the planet. Stop comparing yourself to other moms and by golly, stop comparing yourself to men. You are exactly who you’re supposed to be.

And you’re already the best.

Happy Mother’s Day!